New Pentagon Report Hates the Troops

When Bush continually smirks at the camera and tells us that we will prevail and defeat the Iraqis rising up against us – in Iraq – he is describing to you his definition of victory.

If you are one of the countless millions of Americans who are leery when asked by Bush officials to blind faith in your federal government, considering the “just trust us” motto he’s used for 5 years has burned our country almost every single time, perhaps you’d like to read the latest Pentagon report indicating the army is stretched too thin to defeat the insurgency with our current level of troop rotation. It also casts a different light on the decision to reduce troop levels, as the reason for this decision seems less like, “yay, we’re winning!” and more like, “the civilians in charge of these decisions may have really planned this thing poorly.” From MSNBC:

Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency. He also suggested that the Pentagon’s decision, announced in December, to begin reducing the force in Iraq this year was driven in part by a realization that the Army was overextended.

The 136-page report represents a more sobering picture of the Army’s condition than military officials offer in public. While not released publicly, a copy of the report was provided in response to an Associated Press inquiry.

Thankfully, the insurgency is in it’s last throes.